diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12b2b22..037db2d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -445,10 +445,14 @@ Enables verbose mode. Useful to debug page layout differences.
 
 When set to true, clicking on a link that points to the current URL will trigger a full page reload.
 
-The default is `false`, so clicking on such a link will do nothing.
+When set to `false`, clicking on such a link will cause Pjax to load the 
+current page like any page.
 If you want to add some custom behavior, add a click listener to the link,
 and set `preventDefault` to true, to prevent Pjax from receiving the event.
 
+Note: this must be done before Pjax is instantiated. Otherwise, Pjax's 
+event handler will be called first, and preventDefault() won't be called yet.
+
 Here is some sample code:
 
 ```js
@@ -465,6 +469,8 @@ Here is some sample code:
       }
     })
   }
+  
+  var pjax = new Pjax()
 ```
 
 (Note that if `cacheBust` is set to true, the code that checks if the href
diff --git a/example/index.html b/example/index.html
index 39cd261..f22b1ec 100644
--- a/example/index.html
+++ b/example/index.html
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       <h1>Index</h1>
       Hello.
       Go to <a href="page2.html" class="js-Pjax">Page 2</a> or <a href="page3.html" class="js-Pjax">Page 3</a> and view your console to see Pjax events.
-      Clicking on <a href="index.html">this page</a> will just reload the page entirely.
+      Clicking on <a href="index.html">this page</a> will do nothing.
 
       <h2>Manual URL loading</h2>